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David Dennen wins the Marnie Dilling Prize

David Dennen

Graduate student David Dennen is the 2013 recipient of the Marnie Dilling Prize (from the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Northern California Chapter), for his paper “Hybridity or Purity, Border Regions or Border Lines?: The Problem of Musical Style in Odisha, India.”

The Marnie Dilling Memorial Prize was established in 1998 as an award for the outstanding student paper presented at the Northern California Chapter of the SEM annual meeting. Marnie Dilling
(d. 1997) was a beloved colleague in the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

Student Profile

David Dennen
Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology

David Dennen received a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Davis and a BA from Evergreen State College. He currently teaches at Chihlee University of Technology in Taiwan. His dissertation research was on the music and poetry of Odisha, India. His current research is on the history and ideas of American pragmatism and behaviorism.

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